“Born
in 1953, I’m a writer living in Budapest, Hungary. I
started writing something that turned out to be ‘visual poetry’ thirty
years ago because by the late seventies I’d understood that
if I didn’t want to give up the faint hope of communicating,
I should ‘get rid’ of my mother tongue. So the
main source of my way is a deficiency, which makes things simple
in some sense. My inclinations have always directed me towards
the (actual, ever-changing) limits of verbal communication. But
I don’t distrust / need / enjoy words more or less than the
empty spaces between them, the sheet of paper they are written on,
the rhythm of the turning of the pages, unknown and forgotten symbols,
fragments, natural formations like clouds—each of them and
any combination of them may be an invitation. When I feel easy
and ready to make something, I experience their complete equivalence.” Márton
Koppány’s books, in
English, include Modulations (Otoliths,
2010), This Is Visual Poetry (chapbookpublisher,
2010) and Waves (E·ratio
Editions, 2008). His new e-book is a
motion.